Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: >After reading Tina and Lluis' discussion of B&W image processing, I >pulled up one of my first and favorite Leica images and reprocessed it.? >This was camera shop processing, from 1952, and had some scratches and >flaws.? I used Neat Image to clean it up without losing detail, Focus >Magic Level 1 to sharpen slightly, Photoshop tools to remove some >imperfections, and then Silver Efex Pro 2.0 for final adjustments. >You are both right.? The tools available for B&W are very limited when >compared to color images. >This is my favorite shot of my late wife, at age 20, in 1952. >http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070706-Donna+02+52.JPG.html <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070706-Donna+02+52.JPG.html> >Leica IIIa, Coated Elmar 50/3.5, Kodak Plus-X -- >Jim Nichols >Tullahoma, TN USA ================================================================= Looks very nice. Thee tones are great, and of course it's a fine portrait. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt